Glass-forming machine.



No: 847,696. v PATENTEDBMAR. 19, 1907.

J. RILING a; 0. w. SAG

- GLASS FORMING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED J 'Unrrnn I snares mast @FTFEQEQ I I JOSEPH RILING AND CHARLES SAGEE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENIJSYL- VANIA, ASSIGNORS TO HERO FRUITJAR COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION; OF PENNSYLVANIA.

.atass soaeun'e inset-nae,-

irs' e. emcee;

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 7, 1906- Serial No, 325.052.

Patented na e-19,1907.

the orifices d. A portion of this l astmen- Be it known that we, JOSEPH Bruno and tioned table overlaps the glass-pressingtable, :5 CHARLEsYV, SAGEE, citizens of the Unit-edand the revolution of each is so timed that States, residingat Philadel hia, county of each'orifice d in'the rotationof itstable will 5 Philadelphia, and State 0 Pennsylvania, coincide with a mold b of table a. Beneath have invented a new and useful Improv'cthe table 0 is a plate e, which extends a dis ment in Glass-Forming Machines, of which tance suflicient' to cover the orifice d in its to the following is a full, clear, and exact demovement from the point where it receives: scription, referencebeing had to the accor the glass until it alines with a mold i). i

' 1o' panying drawings, which form a part of this fis a'fixed bracket secured to and project specification. v ing from the axis of the table 0, The outer] I Our inventionis'especially applicable as an end of this bracket has the curved guide 9," )5, adjunct or accessory to a glass-forming mawhich extends aroundand coincides with a "chinefand has for its objectto provide a fixed portion of theto) of the orifice d when said. I 5 amount of glass to be fed into the molds. orifice is at the place oi the guide. Secured r 'Inour improved machine we use an orito a fixed )ortion'of the machine so as to be ficed rotary table, beneath which at the re' in line wit 1 the face or open end of this guide 7: deriving-point and beyond is a plate which 9 is the supporter rest h,,having theforked or forms a bottom for the orifices. in the revocrotched end i, the upper surface of the oriao 'lution of this table the orifices are carried beficc d and the lower surface of'the guide havyond the plate, and asi'each-orifice in the ing cutting edges. 1 i table passesbeyond the plate it slides with a In practice, as stated, the operator gathers 7 5 mold in the mold-table,- so that the glass in "glass from the furnace on the eudof the'gaththe orifice falls into the mold. In order to .ering-tool. He then places the and near the :5 enable the glass to be received in the orifice hand upon the crotched end of the support It conveniently, properly, and in the desired and. scrapes or rubs the gIlass against the amount, we support by an arm in a fixed poguide 9 into the orifice d. n the revolution 80 :ition a guide which has a curved portion "of the table any superfluous glass is cut oil' corresponding to and sun'oundingaportion of' by the cutting edges. The glass in the" orig 3c the top of the orifice in the table, the bottom fices lb ii'leltl there by the plate e until the ori-' of winch guide andthe top of the wall of the has coincides with the mold, when ijt drops orifice having a cutting edge. In line with therein. By this arrangement the glass in 8 the face and open portion of this guide is the regularamounts isicd to the molds and the fixed rest, upon which the glass gathering rod amount readilydetcrnuned by theopcrator I 35 'may be supported, The-operator gathering better than and without the 'necessity of the glass from the furnace on the end of this any hopper. I

' rod places the'rod on the rest and places the liavir'ig now fullydcs cnbed our invention, 0 proper amount of glass into the orifice by what we claim, and desire to protect by Letscraping it against the guide. .This enables I ters Patent, 1s-

4b the operator to accurately determine the i 1. ln amachine of the character dGSQllbGd,

' amount of glass, avoiding-all necessity of in combination, a rotary orificcd table, a

hoppers or other adjhnct apparatus,'andproplate underlying a portion thereof, and a 95 duoes theresult more accurately than with fixed guide, having an open-ended concave ho are or the like. guiding-face overlying said table, said guid- 4,5 e'willnow describe the embodiment of lng-face adapted to substantially coincide our invention illustrated in the accompanywith a portlon of the upper edge of the oriing drawings. 4 1 fices whereby the end of the 'athenngtool' zco Figure l. is a plan View Of'OllI invention. with the glass, may be entcre between. the

, ,Fig. 2 is an elevation of our invention; Fig. ends of the guiding-face and the .glass rest 56 3 is a perspective View of the fixed guide. agamst said face.

' a represents the rotary table of a glass- 2. Inamaclunc oi the character described,

pressing machine,having thereon themolds b, in combination, a rotary-enticed table, .a 10

c is a glass-bending table, havingtherein' plate underlying a portion thereol, and a fixed guide, having an open-ended concave guiding-face overlying said table, said guiding-face adapted to substantially coincide with a portion of the upper edgeof the orifices whereby the end of the Lgathering-tool -3. In a mac ine of the character described,

.in combination, a rotary orificed table, a Ipalate underlymg a POItlOIl thereoi, and a Xed guide, having an openended concave guiding-face overlying said table, said guidm g-face adapted to substantially coincide against said face, and means to produce a w th a portion of the" up 'er edge of the orifices whereby the end:of the athering-tool with the glass may be entered between the ends of the guiding-face and the glass rest cutting action between the lower surface of 2.; the guide and the upper surfaces of the oriin combination,

4. In a machine of the character described, a rotary orificed table a plate underlying a portion thereof, a fixed curved guide, adapted to conform to a portion ofthe upper surfaces of the orifices, and

a fixed support for the gathering-rod in line with the face of said guide.

5. In a machine of the character described, in combination, a rotary oril'iced table, a plate underlying a portion thereof. a fixed curved guide, adapted to conform to a portion of the upper surfaces of the orifices, and

a fixed su port for the gathering-rod in line with the rent of said guide, the upper surfaces of the orifices and the lower surface of the guide having cutting edges. 6. In a machine of the character described, in combination, a rotary oriliccd table, a plate underlying a portion thereof, a fixed curved guide, adapted to conform to a portion of the upper surfaces of the orifices, and a fixed su )port for the gathering-rod in line with the front of said guide, and means to produce a cutt'g gg action between the lower surface of thgfgie'ide and the upper surfaces of the orifices' In testimony of which invention we have hereunto set our hands, at .lhiladelphia,

Pennsylvania, on this 29th day of June, 1906.

JOSEPH HUANG. CHARLES W. SAGEE. Witnesses:

CLAYTON D. GRISCOM, HUTToN KENNEDY. 

